The Science Museum has joined Google Arts & Culture, enabling people across the world to experience the museum in Google Street View for the first time.
Meet the staff members that make the Museum so unique and get the insider scoop on upcoming exhibitions, research projects and new objects.
The Science Museum Group is delighted to announce that it will be lending Robert Stephenson’s Rocket, one of Britain’s most famous feats of engineering, to the Great Exhibition of the North 2018.
Explore the life of British aviation pioneer Amy Johnson.
On this Day in 1909 the Science Museum officially came into being. In celebration of our birthday we’ve asked staff to share their favourite objects from across the museum
Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day
Chris Hayhurst is the European Consulting Manager for MathWorks – a developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and scientists. MathWorks is a sponsor of new gallery Mathematics:The Winton Gallery at the Science Museum. Below Chris explores how maths has built the world around us. What image does maths bring to your mind? For many it might be squared paper and a pencil, a graph, incomprehensible symbols, perhaps beauty or maybe fear. Does it actually help you in your work, your everyday life? […]
Dr.Allan Ponniah is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He has been involved in the latest Live Science experiment at the Science Museum – ‘Are your facial expressions unique?’ – run in collaboration with researchers from Imperial College London. Below he explores how the data gathered at Live Science could improve the lives of autistic children and people undergoing reconstructive surgery amongst many others. The human face is an incredible part of our bodies. It plays […]
Dominique Russell explores what lies behind our gallery show cases
For young viewers of early Dr. Who, the most famous track created by The Radiophonic Workshop will always be inextricably linked with memories of peeking out at Cybermen from behind their sofa. The pulsing rhythms of Delia Derbyshire’s theme tune went on to represent the beginnings of The Workshop’s unique form of early electronica. This pioneering music studio had been set up by a group of BBC employees as demand had grown for innovative synthetic music and sounds for radio […]
Lord Rees talks about the future of robotics.
Introducing the underwater avalanche detecting Smart Boulder
They may be images of old model ships but they conjure up evocative new narratives: dramas about storm-tossed journeys through vast seascapes, epic tales of voyages to strange lands, and stories of legendary vessels that loom from ominous fogs.